Zan

January 21, 2010 at 9:08am

Acer offers the biggest bang for the buck in the industry. When it's coming out of your wallet, how are you going to compete with that? Plus they make a decent laptop now..

cynical

January 21, 2010 at 8:57am

I have to wonder if this only takes into account consumer PC sales. I would expect Acer has a long way to go to catch up to Dell and HP in the business environment.

CentiZen

January 21, 2010 at 7:56am

I sure hope by this time acer has stopped sucking. My first computer was an acer, it was a peice of shit. Touchpad stopped working, hard drive controller died (twice!), and driver support was nonexistant, and out of the 3 drivers that they allowed me to download, one of them (wireless) was a corrupted zip!

I hate acer, and I will never buy from them ever again unless they become more caring as a company. 

SHEILA: AMD X4 965 3.2GHZ ; 4 GB G.SKILL GAMING RAM ; RADEON HD 5770 1GB

logicmaster2003

January 21, 2010 at 7:29am

Like many others who's had enough of HP / Gateway / Dell craps, I myself became a fan of  ASUS and ACER for a while now. I always use ASUS motherboard only !!

stormchaserdave

January 21, 2010 at 7:30am

I hear numerous complaints from Acer owners. I also work at Wal Mart and see a lot of Acer brand computers, mostly laptops and netbooks, returned for being defective. LCD screens have gone out pretty quickly, as have the power supplies on some of these things. Yeah they are very affordable machines, but as you know, you get what you paid for. If Acer really wishes to be the top dog in the PC market, they are going to have to improve quality control on the machines coming out of the factory. Just my two pennies on that.

 

Mac and PC have their strengths and weaknesses, I love them both. So sue me! :D

somethingelse

January 21, 2010 at 7:07am

the whole "american pcs are gonna be extinct" thing is kinda misleading.  i mean, for the most part, if you ever cracked open a dell or hp, you'll notice the ram and harddrives are from companies like samsung and hitachi.  likewise, if you crack open an asus or acer, you're likely to see intel cpus and chipsets (Intel is american, yuh?).  not to mention dell laptops are built in taiwan anyway (i got this information from a Dell rep i deal with at work).  so basically, beyond where the company is founded, every continent gets a piece of the pie when a pc is sold.

if Dell and HP do go extinct in the desktop market, it's not because their american, but because they rip you off.  not so much HP, they're workstations are pretty nice.  but Dell is just a freakin joke when it comes to customizing the right pc; they take you to the cleaners when it comes to things like ram and hard-drives, and if your customizing a pc on their site and want a part they don't offer, tuff nuts, you have to get what they offer and replace it yourself after.  not to mention their support is a joke too, unless you get gold level support which is $500 extra for desktops and up to $2000 on servers.

to sum it up, f*** you Dell, rock on Asus and Acer

ok, now that i got that off my chest i feel better and can continue to work.  thxbye :)

 

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ThunderBolt

January 21, 2010 at 6:53am

Keep on going.  More competition means better prices, better quality for the rest of us :)